Deann Kruempel Ordre des livres

Isn't it amazing how different people remember different things, whether it be about a long-ago incident or something that happened only yesterday? Once Upon a Midwest Sunset melds memories of a family who grew up in South Dakota in the mid-1900s. The stories will make you laugh, cry and remember. Just short of our post, two bulls were fighting! We watched in horror as their battle brought them closer to us. As a young girl, I just figured they were silly old ladies, having a good time. Looking back ... now I think they just needed to laugh. "Mmmmm, sugar cookies, my favorite!" At that moment I resolved to make even better mud cookies...Then she slurped loudly from the tiny nutshell, her pinky finger lifted daintily. "Some years are like that. In farming. In life. You just have to keep going." Praise for the author's works: ...This has become an author I can honestly say I would purchase any book she wrote. She has a most enlightening way of bringing you along in the story. ---K. A. ...emotional journey...laugh and cry...hope and faith. ---Amy R. If you like Chicken Soup for the Soul books, you will love this one! ---Dottie H.

"Like a living thing, the fire reached for the tall grasses, consumed them, then greedily inhaled more as it waded forward. Spewing out flames that rolled ahead like a fiery snowball, the beast trudged closer....."With visual imagery and poignant characterizations and a touch of humor, the author paints a vivid account of an Iowa farm family in 1939 struggling to survive.Unexpected tragedy strikes. Can the love between Christina and William withstand the aftermath? The courage and strength of the Andersson's is tested to its limits.